Process for producing color effects and the apparatus therefor.



Y J. M. GARY. -PBOGESS FDR PRODUCING COLOR EFFECTS AND THE APPARATUSTHEREFOR.

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Patented July 21, 1914.

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To all whomc't may concern it known that I, JULIA county of Fairfieldand State of Oonnecti: out, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Processes for Producing Color Effects and the ApparatusTherefor May invention. relates to improvements in pro ucing, projectingand manipulat ng colors on a vapor medium for artistic efi'ects and forcommercial 4 of a theater or outdoors, wherever hght and purposes, onthe stage color. may beprojected and used for scenic 'efiect either asthe principal foreground,-

middle distance, or background; andvthe objects of my discovery are:let. Toiprovide, confine and sha e a vapor body, IA,511.0 or:

through which ight and color may be projected, temporarily arrested, andchanged, with a eat variety Of'COlOI' efi'fects. 2nd. 'Jlo prod lice atwill aerial perspective and tone and depth in color edects, with orwithout continuous movement and change, merging pictures one intoanother, dissolvin views, and blending lights 3r ,ro provide simple andefi ective means for realizin the foregoing ob ects.

Other ob ects will appear mm the hereinafter description.

ll attain these objects-and work this process by the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawings, which are by :wayoir'illustration only, and not a limitation. I

describe-in this specification and represent in the accompanyingdrawings such illustrative mechanism, in which-' Figure 1 is aperspective view of the screens in place upon the stage of a theater,omit-' 'dtll tingall accessories not directly concerned in working theprocess, and these screens would I ordinarily be the wholehei'ght andwidth of the stage, or they may be employed to described as suitable forA or B, or of cancover the upper half of the stage, for example, or someother part of the stage.

A and B are transparent or translucent wire gauze screens, preferably ofmedium mesh, say sixteen to t e inch, and preferably composed of copperor'other metal wire of inconspicuous size, but it may be of fibrousgauze, and with less effect, and the screen A. is" represented asfacing-the audience in a theater, for example, and as occupying thefwholeheight and width of the stage.

(3 may be another screen, like any of those Specification or LettersPatent.

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or the like.

Patented July 21, 1914.

. r 'vas, or it may be the back wall of the stage, Mmcanr CARY, acitizenof the United States of America, residing in the" town ofRidgefield, in the or any other plain or decorated surface.

D is a. small steam boiler adapted to produce steam.

E'and F are perforated steam pipes, each located in the space betweenthe screens A, B and C, at the bottom, but they may be at one side orboth sides, or at the top, or in all of these positions.

a G and H are steam connecting, pipes con: necting the steam space ofthe boiler D to. the perforated pipes E and F, each controlled by a sto-cock, 9 and h.

- I is a row of ootlights between the screens B and C, as shown in thedrawings; but

top of the space, or in any one or more suchv locations;;and such lightsmay be arrangedin the s ace between A and front or back 0 allthescreens.

K is a source of light in the front of the stage, as is. in the gallery,adapted tothrow lights, colors, and representations of any desired kindtoward the apparatus above described.

L is a similar light in the rear otuthe stage,but' in front of tlie'backwall which maybe used simultaneously with light K, or vother lihts, oralone. Other similar lights, chie arranged at the si es of the stage,directed at the sides or top orjbottom, or an or all such locationsadapted to throw lig ts into the s aces between the screens.

I ave discovered that such wire gauze screens have the property ofcbnfining a cloud of varto the space between the said screens, an I makeuse of this discovery to provide a body of vapor shaped and controlledat the will of the operator between the spaces defined by .any twoadjacent screens as described; and on this body of vapor and into it Iproject by the apparatus above'described light and scenes and repre- B,or in y for Erojecting color, may be 'sentations of all kinds in a wayto produce depth in the scene represented, a co'lorsymphony withmanifold variety, with or without constant change, and wlth highartistic excellence. By ro ecting sky blue on one vapor body, an gray orneutral-tints on local parts of vapor in the space next in front, I mayreduce the efiect of clouds drifting over esky, and. by other li htslmay produce a sunset and then the father:

low. I may produce wonderful sta e ackgrounds by throwing-scenes upont evapor body toward the front from the lantern L in the rear.

light athwart the vapor bodies, from the suitable lights at the sametime from the lan- I may shoot beams of stage, or from the top orbottom. I may thus reproduce on thestage the aurora borealis, the dawn,the seasons, lightning, moving pictures, butterfly efiects, and colorsymphonies.

As original work, other great varieties of light and color creations arepossible; and these in turn may be photographed'on mov ing picture filmsand reproduced on anordinary screen, without the expense of the wiregauze, lights and steam apparatus required for original work.

These screens may be multiplied indefinitely in parallel with suitablevapor space between each, each illuminated by diflerent lights from thesides, top or bottom of the stage, with endless combinations of sceneand light.

be attended, of course, by'acting, singing,

and other music and the like.

Many changes may be made in the apparatus, the arrangement of elements,the number of screens, means of lighting, projecting light, and thecreation of the vapor body; I

controlling the said vapor body by means of gauze screens, andprojecting light upon the vapor body.

2. The apparatus for carrying out the said process, which consists ingauze screens adapted to locate and shape a visible body of vapor, meansfor producing a visible body of vapor within the space between saidscreens, and means for throwing light upon said body of vapor. I

In witness whereof I havehereunto set my hand, at New York, in thecounty of New York and State of New York, this 22nd day of May, 1913.

JULIA M. GARY,

In presence of MELBERT B. CARY, LORETTA BEIRNE, .HUGH F. DOLAN.

